Goethals Bridge

40.636775 - 74.198923Koordinaten: 40 ° 38 ' 12.4 "N, 74 ° 11' 56.1 " W

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Arthur Kill

The Goethals Bridge is a cantilever bridge that connects the north of the New York City borough Staten Iceland at the height of Howland Hook to Elizabeth, New Jersey. It is 2164 m long and crosses the Arthur Kill, a strait that separates Staten Iceland from the mainland and an important access to the New York Harbor, is at a height of 42.7 m.

In addition to the Bayonne Bridge and Outerbridge Crossing is one of three roads of Staten Iceland to New Jersey and establishes the connection between the New Jersey Turnpike (I- 95 ) and the Staten Iceland Expressway ( I-278 ), the further to the Verrazano- Narrows Bridge leads ago.

The four-lane Goethals Bridge is operated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which charges a toll from the current 13 U.S. Dollars for the crossing to the east. It is named for Major General George W. Goethals, one of the builders of the Panama Canal, who also worked as a consultant for the Port Authority. The bridge was one of the first projects of the Founded in 1921, the Port Authority and was released on June 29, 1929 along with the nearly identical Outerbridge Crossing to traffic.

Since the bridge, which is used every year by around 28 million vehicles, no longer corresponds to the current road construction standards, the Port Authority plans to replace it with a new building.